« Hundreds of students walked out of classrooms around suburban Denver on Tuesday in protest over a conservative-led school board proposal to focus history education on topics that promote citizenship, patriotism and respect for authority, in a show of civil disobedience that the new standards would aim to downplay ».

The youth protest involving six high schools in the state’s second-largest school district follows a sick-out from teachers. « I don’t think my education should be censored » says one of the students.

« The school board proposal that triggered the walkouts in Jefferson County calls for instructional materials that present positive aspects of the nation and its heritage. It would establish a committee to regularly review texts and course plans, starting with Advanced Placement history, to make sure materials “promote citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free-market system, respect for authority and respect for individual rights” and don’t « encourage or condone civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law ».

Session Ι: Internet and Public History Maria Bontila, Internet adventures of Public History : A case study Dimitris Bilalis, The nation, the parasite and the virus. Aspects of historical culture in the Greek web Xenia Eleftheriou, Public History as a conflictual issue: The Holocaust of Greek Jews in the InternetSession IΙ: Historiography and Public History Session ΙΙΙ: Testimonies, Oral History and Public HistorySession IV: Literature and Public History ISession V: Literature and Public History ΙΙSession VΙ: Memory and Public HistorySession VII : Press and Public HistorySession VIIΙ: Cinema, Theatre and Public History Session IΧ: Education and Public History ΙSession Χ: Education and Public History ΙΙ

How and Why the Use and Abuse of History is Inescapable, Inevitable and Invaluable for Public Life

- Can We Create a National Digital Library ? Conférence de Robert Darnton à Harvard, October 1, 2010et article dans The New York Review of Books - October 28, 2010« As Lewis Hyde put it in his recent book, Common as Air, an enclosure movement is threatening to destroy our cultural commons, the world of knowledge that belongs to us all ». Pour créer a Digital Public Library of America, « We can find the money and the skill.Can we find the Will ? »http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/oct/28/can-we-create-national-digital-library/

Robert Darntonsource : A piece of monologue - Do Books have a Future? An Interview with Robert Darnton - 4.1.2012

« Knowledge is the common property of Mankind » (Thomas Jefferson). « I see a danger : access to knowledge could be restricted through commercialisation ( cf. the spiralling cost of periodicals). « A Digital Public Library of America, with a coalition of foundations who are providing the money and a coalition of research libraries who are providing the books », can allow an equal access to Knowledge.